A few days after the world premiere of his 50th film at the Venice Film Festival (4/9), entitled “Turns of Fortune” (“Coup de Chance,”), Woody Allen will come to Greece to present it to the Greek audience at the avant premiere that will take place on September 8 in Aigli Zappeio and is organized by Spentzos FIlm in collaboration with the 29th Athens International Film Festival – Premiere Nights.

The film, which will be released in Greek theaters on September 27 by Spentzos Film, talks about the important role played by opportunities and luck in our lives. According to the official synopsis, Fanny (Lou de Laaz) and Jean (Melville Poupaud) seem like the ideal married couple – they’re both professionally successful, live in a gorgeous apartment in a privileged Paris neighborhood, and seem so in love as they were when they first met. But when Fanny meets Allen (Niels Schneider), a former classmate from high school, completely by chance on the street, she loses her footing. Soon they will start to find each other and get closer and closer…

The American director states: “This is my fiftieth film. It was a great privilege to shoot it in Paris and it is a great honor to present it in Venice.”

Although Woody Allen’s filmography is undeniably associated with New York, Paris has always had a special place in the director’s heart. After shooting – in part – Everybody Says I Love You in Paris in 1996 and making the French capital a character in its own right in 2010’s Midnight in Paris, he returns to the City of Light, this time for a film based on entirely shot in French.

“I don’t really speak French and understand even less, but when I finished the script, I thought it would be a great experience to do it in French,” Allen notes. “I’ve always been in love with European and French cinema, and when I suggested shooting it in French to my producers, they were enthusiastic,” he adds.

The 29th Athens International Film Festival – Premiere Nights will take place from September 27 to October 9, 2023 in the theaters: Danaos I & II, Ideal, Astor, Asty, Athens Concert Hall, Pallas, Piraeus Municipal Theater and the Auditorium of the French Institute Greece. The full festival schedule will be announced on Wednesday, September 20.